The skinny on building a BMW flat tracker

Some builders search far and wide to find the perfect donor. But, sometimes, the right bike literally rolls through the door. This BMW belonged to a 75-year-old Swiss gentleman who had just decided to hang up his helmet. So he took his R75/7 to his local dealer and asked them to sell it for him. That dealer just happened to be Stucki 2Rad—and the Beemer just happened to be perfekt for their VTR Customs division. Shop boss Dani Weidmann had been itching to build a flat track-inspired airhead—and the BMW fit the bill perfectly. “I hope the gentleman doesn't read...